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685-Exiled Asteroid(463)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist’s concept illustrating a catastrophic collision between two rocky exoplanets in the planetary system BD +20 307, turning both into dusty debris. Ten years ago, scientists speculated that the warm dust in this system was a result of a planet-to-plan, Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook
An asteroid is exiled to the outer regions of the solar system during Jupiter's rampaging tack away from the Sun long ago. During that process enou...

Bought by KENW, Allegheny Mountain Radio, Simply Beautiful, KGLP, KICI Iowa City and more


  • Added: Mar 13, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
684-Our View(462)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Night Sky, Credit: NPS
Modern technology provides us with stunning views of objects in the Universe in wavelengths invisible to our eyes, however, nothing is as moving an...

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  • Added: Mar 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
680-Comets and Asteroids(454)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Fragments of the Sutter’s Mill meteorite fall collected by NASA Ames and SETI Institute meteor astronomer Peter Jenniskens in the evening of Tuesday April 24, 2012, two days after the fall. This was the second recovered find., Credit: NASA Ames/Eric James
If you set your mind to it, you can find and hold a sample of an asteroid, called a meteorite, which has landed on the Earth's surface. On the othe...

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  • Added: Feb 06, 2022
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
658-Fireball II(418)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The Phoenix CityCam caught the flash of light around 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 14, 2017, Credit: City of Phoenix
Recently there were four fireball meteors, brighter than the planet Venus, which exploded over Germany, France, Ohio, and Arizona within the space ...

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  • Added: Sep 05, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
651-Spotting Meteors(397)
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Falling from Space, Credit: NASA/Bill Dunford
Meteors, shooting stars, or falling stars are different names for the streaks of light in the night sky which are in reality the dying embers of ti...

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  • Added: Jul 17, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
Online Conspiracies & Virtual Cults Part 2: Celebrity Makes the World Go Flat
From: Fluent Knowledge
Series: The Purple Principle Podcast
Caption: Online Conspiracies & Virtual Cults Part 2: Celebrity Makes the World Go Flat
Do we live in an age where online conspiracies and cults proliferate ever more frequently and powerfully? We continue to explore this question by f...

  • Added: Jun 15, 2021
  • Length: 27:48
642-Vesta Fragment
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: The Asteroid Vesta, Credit: NASA
An impacting object hit the asteroid Vesta making a 10 mile diameter crater and in the process blasted loose fragments which have been orbiting th...

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  • Added: May 16, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 9
639-Earth Approachers
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
During a recent 60 day period asteroid hunters discovered 29 space rocks as they passed closer to us than the Moon. These small asteroids averaged...

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  • Added: Apr 24, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
638-Methane
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Artist’s conception of early Earth after several large asteroid impacts, moving magma on to the surface. , Credit: Simone Marchi/SwRI
How ET could know there is life on Earth.

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  • Added: Apr 18, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
637-Martian Dust
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Zodiacal Light and Mars , Credit: Joshua Rhoades
After sunset in the spring and before sunrise in the fall, at a natural night sky location like the Cosmic Campground International Dark Sky Sanctu...

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  • Added: Apr 11, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
GN_6.32_ Air To H2O
From: Good News Good Planet
Series: Good News Good Planet - Season 6
Caption: Good News for a Good Planet - Change your focus, change your world.
Harvesting water from thin air... yes, really.

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  • Added: Mar 10, 2021
  • Length: 02:24
  • Purchases: 2
631-Greg's Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
My Catalina Survey Teammate Greg Leonard was asteroid hunting with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona when he spotted a fuzzy object wit...

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  • Added: Feb 28, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
629-Loneliest Asteroid
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
My Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin was asteroid hunting in the constellation of Canes Venatici with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, ...

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  • Added: Feb 14, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
Coyote
From: Fil Corbitt
Series: The Wind
Piece image
An ode to the coyote. Dan Flores and his book Coyote America, dueling press releases, and The Wind Inaugural Coyote Calling Contest.

  • Added: Feb 02, 2021
  • Length: 47:41
627-Toughest Asteroids
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Eros, Credit: NASA
In 2020, my team the Catalina Sky Survey discovered 14 extremely tough asteroids which regularly travel closer to the Sun than the planet Mercury. ...

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  • Added: Jan 29, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
623-Arecibo
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
The National Science Foundation has announced that it will close and decommission the giant RADAR telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Ri...

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  • Added: Jan 01, 2021
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 10
621-Morning Sky
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Although the orbit of an Aten asteroid crosses our path in space on its travel about the Sun it stays mostly inside the Earth's orbit making it dif...

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  • Added: Dec 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
618-Tremendous Find
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate David Rankin searched for asteroids, as close to the Sun as possible with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lem...

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  • Added: Nov 28, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
617-One to Track
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Recently my Catalina Sky Survey teammate Teddy Pruyne was observing in the constellation Lacerta with our 60 inch telescope on Mt. Lemmon, Arizona ...

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  • Added: Nov 20, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
615-Solar Storm Forecasts
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
A large solar coronal mass ejection could put astronauts, airline passengers, power grids, electronic devices, and satellites at risk. Participa...

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  • Added: Nov 06, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
610-Atmospheric Gravity Waves
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Caption: Atmospheric gravity waves seen from space, Credit: Jeff Schmaltz – (NASA)
Atmospheric gravity waves can be powerful. In September of 2018 two glider pilots surfed an atmospheric gravity wave created by high speed polar w...

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  • Added: Oct 02, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
608-Triple Comet
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Recently amateur astronomer, Worachate Boonplod discovered the 4049th comet recorded in the imaging data produced by SOHO, the ESA/NASA Solar and ...

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  • Added: Sep 18, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12
606-Falling Stones
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
Approximately 100 million metric tons of mostly sand grained sized space dust enters the Earth's atmosphere every day. Occasionally, larger pieces ...

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  • Added: Sep 04, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 11
When Fate Unleashes a Rainbow
From: Goethe-Institut
Series: Fehler (Mistakes)
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Roses are red, violets are blue – except for the millions of people worldwide who experience color blindness, or color vision deficiency (CVD). But...

Bought by KICI Iowa City


  • Added: Aug 13, 2020
  • Length: 21:58
  • Purchases: 1
599-Path to Mars
From: Albert Grauer
Series: Travelers In The Night
Piece image
The human thirst for knowledge about our mysterious next door neighbor is about to receive more than a sip from robotic emissaries launched in 2020...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2020
  • Length: 02:00
  • Purchases: 12